Shitfun / CrotchRot – Split CD (2015)

September 4, 2023

What a fucking car crash of a split. Kudos to Cemitério Records for laying down mad cash to put this farce onto an fully glass mastered CD. RIP your bank account.

So, where do I begin? The artwork I suppose. I’m getting a lot of mixed vibes here, none of which make even the remotest sense to me, but there we go. Perhaps I’m missing the point.

The carnage starts with Crotch Rot, who are, I’m sorry to say (I hate badmouthing underground bands) are absolute fucking dogshit. Think poor man’s Gut / Rompeprop, which isn’t the worst thing in the world when produced properly in a nice studio with a fat sound (like this, admittedly), but what makes me want to take the CD out of the player, snap it in half or throw it out onto the main road so that some truck can have its way with it is the pitchshifter vocals. For some reason, some clown thought it would be a fun idea to pitchshift “up” instead of down. This has been done to varying comical effect in the past (didn’t Gronibard do it? I forget), but it is OVERUSED to the point of maddening, infuriating rage here. Why spunk all that money on studio time to shit all over your songs with Alvin and the Chipmunks vocals? Beyond fucking puzzling to me.

The only thing saving this CD is Shitfun, who’ve done some really solid stuff in the past. Here is nothing groundbreaking, but my God I’m just happy to hear a band that’s got their shit together. Fat, high quality goregrind is the order of the day (the chuggy, nasty variety rather than the liquid, blasting variety).

Honestly… I just needed a break from listening to music after this. LOL